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tree" trees. Pear trees usually take longer to fruit so you would need to be patient. Cox's are notoriously temperamental - I'd rather grow a James Grieve - delicious multi-purpose apple http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/James-Grieve-Apple-Trees . We don

I think I need to give my Bramley apple tree its first prune. I bought it as a small whip of a tree about 4 yrs ago and its now about 9ft tall at its highest point. Its main trunk is about 4 ft tall before it splits. It has developed two lead

in 1840. Obviously these things need time to grow and fruit so we then have a hiatus until 1857. On October 24th that year the RHS held their Grand Fruit Exhibition and, according to the report:"In the class of single dishes of dessert apple the first

suggests. Make it an 'edible' hedge too - grow your own hazelnuts, sloes, rosehips, crab apples, elderberries and wild pears. Anything you don't eat will be eaten by the birds in winter, while the flowers will provide a long season of pollen and nectar

that this was the mistletoe growing after a good 10 months or so. I now have three good healthy "growths" and hope we get some berries this year. I was delighted to find mistletoe growing on the apple tree in my newly aquired garden 7 years ago. It has been lightly 'pruned

, it's the apples and pears that have been the subject of my attentions. As we know, apple trees blossom picturesquely in spring. These flowers then develop into small fruits and then, in June, the tree shrugs and loses a fair few of these (this

Use twigs pushed into the ground to support tall-growing peas, or use short canes and stringFeed strawberries with a high potash feed, such as tomato fertiliserSow flowering companions in your veg plot, such as tagetes and poached egg plants

up using this to grow my climbing plants up. Anyone have any ideas of how to stop squirrels stealing your apples? 3 weeks ago I had a tree groaning with them, now I don't have a single one. It's never happened before, but the only thing I can think

Around the gardenTake cuttings from pansies and violasPot up tender perennials grown outside Prune rambling roses after floweringFlowersFinish summer pruning trained apple and pear treesHarvest apples, pears, plums and gages as they ripenSave seeds from varieties

tiny areas of leaf tissue, causing dead, brown patches. As the leaf grows, these areas tear causing a multitude of small holes. On apples, they leave raised bumps and scabby patches.The uppermost leaves on plants have small, brown-ringed holes, while